Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life
Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
It’s fairly obvious that one can’t be a ‘perfect’ environmentalist. But that’s okay. Perfection isn’t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.” —from the Introduction
The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life...
by Professor James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding...
Your Water Footprint
The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A "water footprint" is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
The Elements of Power
Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become the building...
by Fabelizer Movies One LLP
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Ages: 6 – 10
There’s too much plastic waste.
When Oakwood’s recycling plant crumbles under plastic waste, the overflowing bins in the city cry out for help.
Enter Aychu, our invisible environmental warrior .
Equipped with a ‘Plastic Coin Maker’ and her trusty...
by Henry Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated...
by Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions...
Diet for a Hot Planet
The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government...
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the...
A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model
For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant...
Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. -Sierra Magazine
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
Holding her first grandchild in her...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos.